Saint Peter

The early C12 S chancel door is round-headed and has two plain unchamfered orders

The N door was assembled in 1881 from C12 fragments and has one order of shafts with scalloped capitals

The S porch was added in the post-medieval period, probably in the C17, and was restored in the C19

The S door has a depressed, four-centred arch, probably C17, and the door itself is also C17

The 3-stage W tower has large, added buttresses to N and S. There is a blocked round-headed doorway in the W face, probably of the C11 and possibly pre-Conquest

There is a double lancet above the door, and the belfy has paired lights of the early C13 under a continuous hood mould

The three bay N arcade was built in 1881 and has round shafts with moulded capitals in a C13 style

The E window has C13 jamb shafts

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES C13 straight headed aumbry in the chancel E wall and C13 trefoiled piscina in the chancel S wall

C15 font with an octagonal panelled bowl

C17 oak pulpit on a modern base, retaining the original hour-glass stand

Royal arms of George III

Some C17 and C18 monuments, including brass floor plates to Elizabeth, wife of Francis Hervey (d. 1642), and Mary, wife of William Hervey (d. 1645) and some C18 wall tablets

The S door is C17

HISTORY The earliest fabric is the probably C11 base of the tower, and the western part of the chancel is early C12, indicating that the nave was also its present length by the early C12

Fragments of round column shafts found when the N aisle was built in 1881 suggest that the medieval N aisle was built in the late C12 or early C13

The upper part of the tower was also built in the C13, and the spire that fell in the C18 was probably added in the C14

Fragments of C15 window tracery also found in 1881 suggest that the church was remodelled at that date

The N aisle was demolished and the N nave wall rebuilt after the fall of the spire in 1725, and the S nave was also rebuilt at some time in post-medieval period, perhaps in the C17, the date of the S door, or in the early C18

In the C17 and C18, the rectory was held almost exclusively by members of the Hervey, later the Hervey Knight, family

SOURCES Hakes, J. A Brief History of the Village of Weston Favell, Northampton, and the Church of St Peter (1981) Lewis, S., Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), 524-7 Pevsner, N., Buildings of England, Northamptonshire (1973), 348 RHME Northamptonshire V (1985), 416-9 VCH Northamptonshire IV (1937), 107-11 REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The church of St Peter, Weston Favell, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Parish church, probably C11 in origin, including late C11 tower base and C12 S chancel door. * Extensively remodelled in the C19, when the N aisle and N porch were built, replacing a medieval aisle destroyed by the fall of the tower in 1725. * Fittings of note include the C15 font and the chancel arch. * Jacobean pulpit on a modern stem. * Historical association with James Hervey, d.1758